Version 1 of Adding images to local mode wikis

Updated 2002-12-05 00:09:56

Category Wikit

The following procedure can be used to add a gif image file to a stand alone wikit database (i.e. .tkd file).

Assumptions

• a directory named dir exist
• a wikit database named wikit.tkd is in the directory
• a gif image file named image.gif is in the directory

Procedure

• Open the wikit database using wikit.kit application.
• Edit the page where the image is to added and add the following text [http://image.gif] where the image is to appear.
• Save the changes to the page and exit wikit
• Run the following command in the dir directory.

    % wikit -images scan wikit.tkd
    Scanning 17 wiki pages...
    1 urls added, 0 urls deleted

• Then run this command in the dir directory.

    % wikit -images local wikit.tkd
    1 local images copied

• The image is now loaded into the wikit database (so try it out :-)

wikit -image Options

tclkit wikit.kit -images scan wikit.tkd

Scans all pages, updating an "image cache" inside the wikit.tkd datafile (this does not fetch images, it just updates that cache) repeated calls are incremental: adds new / deletes unused items

tclkit wikit.kit -images list wikit.tkd

Lists all entries currently in the image cache, with fetch/file dates

tclkit wikit.kit -images get wikit.tkd

This goes through the image cache and fetches any entries which have not been successfully fetched before (only images <= 100 Kb)

tclkit wikit.kit -images local wikit.tkd

Goes through caches, storing all images it can find in pwd, i.e. updates and replaces what is in the cache with local file copies (can be used to add/replace, and to store images > 100 Kb)

tclkit wikit.kit -images clear wikit.tkd

Clear the image cache (does not compact the wikit datafile, but space will be re-use

Tom Krehbiel

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